The
following is a list of those who helped to move the Cotton Patch Version from
ink on a printed page to a digital online format - scanning or re-typing
the text, putting into html.

In 2002, Tom Holbach was a 49 yr. old father of three daughters, with a
"wonderful" wife of 27 years. "As a teenager,"
he says, "I found in Clarence Jordan's writings an introduction to the New
Testament that would encourage me to think about what the scriptures were saying to me. Perhaps, through placing the Cottonpatch versions on the web,
some other 16 year old will have an opportunity to read them and likewise begin to
think."

Thanks
also goes to Davis Carothers for his work in the "Cotton Patch."
When these pages were pulled together, he was pastor of the New Covenant United Methodist Church in Jackson, MS.
"I have slept at the Koinonia community farm one night, spent time with Millard Fuller, and was responsible for scheduling him to speak at 8 churches one Sunday *morning* in Tupelo
Miss.," he writes.

Pastor (as of September 2002) of the Springs Community Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
in East Hampton, New York, Joe Hinds was born and raised in
Mississippi, and lived in Alabama until moving to Georgia to prepare for
ministry at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur. He served as pastor of the
Presbyterian Church in Pelzer, South Carolina before moving to NY to be nearer
his sons, Miller and Jack, who live with their mother in New Jersey. His wife,
the Rev. Kazy Blocher Hinds also serves in the Presbytery of Long Island. He
writes:

"In
my first year of seminary as I studied Bible, Greek, Pastoral Care, and
Church History, I experienced the urging of the Holy Spirit to be
involved in the works of mercy. Early on, I volunteered at a soup
kitchen and Habitat for Humanity. I reflected with a professor and
mentor on how this work was connected with academics as I prepared for
ministry. At his recommendation, I began reading Clarence Jordan and
learned that what I was experiencing had a name, Incarnational Theology.
Clarence's work continues to inform me about building community and
authenticity of faith. I am a child of the Deep South, Clarence's plain
writing in the familiar vernacular rings familiar in my ears. I hear my
Grandfather's Mississippi voice when I read Clarence Jordan's words.
"Since we have such a great, heaven-sent spiritual leader as Jesus,
God's son, let's get on the ball." (Heb.
4:14)

It was
Everett Mishler, of the Union
Center Church of the Brethren just outside Nappanee, Indiana, who first
introduced Pete
Haynes to the wisdom of the Cotton Patch. "I remember
sitting with Everett when I was a youth pastor there," he writes,
"and stories of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia community would be
told. I can't recall how much Everett had been involved, and I can't personally
ask him any more since he has since passed on to Glory, but both Everett and
Clarence made an impact on my ministry." It was Pete's dream to get the
Cotton Patch version online, that it might become available to another
generation. He thanks the "scribes" above for the time they put into
this project, scanning the text, or typing it out into a word processor format,
which Pete placed online as "webservant." Who did what doesn't matter.

Pete is
currently the pastor of the Long
Green Valley Church of the Brethren in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. It is
in the memory of brother Everett Mishler that Pete dedicates his work in this
corner of the Cotton Patch.